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The Museum is open regularly on 1st Tuesday, 2nd Saturday, 3rd Wednesday of every month except December and January, from 10:00am to 1:00pm. Visitors are welcome.
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November - Saturday 27th - General Meeting - Members Choice - 'Governor Macquarie and the Settlers of Airds and Appin'
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October - Saturday 23rd - General Meeting - To Be Confirmed
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September - Saturday 25th - General Meeting - Trevor Richardson - 'Macquarie's Postmaster - Isaac Nicholls'
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September - Saturday 11th - Open Morning - Campbelltown Craft Display - Displays and Demonstrations
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August - Saturday 28th - Annual General Meeting - Val West - 'Lachlan Macquarie - Visionary and Reformer'
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August - Saturday 14th - Open Morning and Q&A - 'All you wanted to know about Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie'. Panel led by Val West and Jackie Green
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July - Saturday 24th - General Meeting - Dr Peter Bolt - 'Lachlan Macquarie and Thomas Moore of Liverpool
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July - Saturday 10th - Open Morning
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June - Saturday 26th - General Meeting - Craig Turner - 'From Botany Wool to the Beijing Experience'
After education at Campbelltown Public School, at Hurlstone College and then at Wagga, Craig chose a career in the wool industry. This has taken him to Adelaide and Melbourne as well as Sydney. He now works in Brisbane in the financial sector. Craig has judged sheep and wool fleeces at the Royal and at other Shows and exhibitions all over the country.
Botany Wool was the name given to a new variety of wool coming in to England and the continent from the infant colony of NSW in the late 18th century. Craig's story travels from those early days and the experiences of such men as Alexander Riley of Raby, and John Macarthur, to modern times and trade with China.
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June - Saturday 12th - Open Morning
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May - Sunday 23rd - An Exhibition of Members Work - Friday 21 to Sunday 23 May 2010 - Gallery Hours - Campbelltown Arts Centre
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May - Saturday 22nd - General Meeting - Laila Ellmoos – 'Building Civic Pride The Macquarie Era'
In 1816, Governor Lachlan Macquarie appointed Francis Greenway as NSW’s first Civil Architect. Since this time, the NSW Government Architect has been involved in the design and construction of public buildings in the State. Public buildings such as courthouses, hospitals or gaols are usually funded by the public purse, and are designed and built for the ‘public good’. Public architecture is also an expression of civic pride, and in the case of Sydney and NSW, is symbolic of the development of the State from its beginnings as a penal colony.
This paper will investigate the role that public architecture plays in creating our environment by focussing the first Government Architect in NSW, Francis Greenway, and the buildings constructed in the Sydney region during the Macquarie era.
Biography
Laila Ellmoos is the historian with the NSW Government Architect's Office Heritage Group. She has researched, written and interpreted Australian social history for a range of audiences in a variety of mediums including heritage assessment reports, radio and TV, online content and educational resources.
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